Museum News

Museum News

Museum closures in March

We love meeting new people! Bring your friends and tour the historic McGuffey House and Museum!

Charlotte Krauss, McGuffey docent, pauses during tour with University of North Dakota alumni

From Our Collection

From Our Collection

Octagonal Table

It is thought that McGuffey wrote the first four books in the series in this house, very possibly on this table.

1840s Pie Safe

Poplar with pierced tin panels, 1840–1850

Cupboards of this type were used for food storage. The pierced tin panels allowed air circulation without letting rodents and large insects foul the foodstuffs.

Bishop Sideboard

Mahogany, 1790–1815

This sideboard belonged to the first president of Miami University, Robert Hamilton Bishop. Brought to Oxford by the Bishops in 1824, it stood in the entry hall of the Bishop home until the 1930s. In 1991, Dr. Jonathan S. Bishop donated the sideboard to Miami University and the McGuffey Museum.

Peter Bruner's top hat and hat box

Overcoming years of slavery, voluntary service in the Union Army, and decades of manual labor, celebrated Oxford citizen Peter Bruner‟s life is a story worth telling and re-telling. The Museum collection includes his top hat and hat box.

William Holmes McGuffey
House and Museum

A National Historic Landmark
We aim to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit materials relating to the life of William Holmes McGuffey, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader series, the history of Miami University, and 19th century domestic life and architecture of southwest Ohio.